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<H1>Open sessions</H1>
<P>After login in successfully you might get to the <B>Open sessions</B>
screen. This will not happen after fresh installation, but if you
close the browser window without pressing Exit button, your session
remains open and in this screen you can choose to continue that one
instead of starting a new one.</P>
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<P>If there are no sessions open for your <SPAN LANG="en-GB">user
name</SPAN>, a new session is created and this screen is skipped 
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<H3>What is a Dataxi session?</H3>
<P>A session is nothing more than an instance of an application. Any
user can have one or more of them. They work independently from each
other and therefore it is a<SPAN LANG="en-GB"> recommendation </SPAN>to
keep the number of sessions for the same user as small as possible to
avoid the locking trouble when trying to edit the same thing in two
sessions. It should be<SPAN LANG="en-GB"> enough </SPAN>that another
user is editing just the thing you want, so why increase the pain?</P>
<H3>Restoring a session</H3>
<P>A very common situation to see the <B>Open sessions</B> screen is
when your operating systems has shown you the ever so popular blue
screen of death or by whatever<SPAN LANG="en-GB"> colour </SPAN>it is
today, and &nbsp;you want to continue working where you were. Dataxi
stores the state of your session pretty often, so you should not have
lost much typing when you click on a button to open the session you
where using before the crash.</P>
<P>You may also close the browser by accident and once you have
logged in again, continue working as nothing happened.</P>
<H3>Session capture</H3>
<P>This session handling feature and it's implementation also
supports <B>Session capturing</B> where a session opened from another
machine, host, address and so on, can be continued in another. In
other words, when you leave your session open in computer A and walk
down the stairs to computer B and login from there, you can<SPAN LANG="en-GB">
hijack </SPAN>the session that was opened in computer A upstairs.
Once back to A, you can recapture the session back, that was<SPAN LANG="en-GB">
hijacked </SPAN>to somewhere else, or go back to login screen.</P>
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